Call of Duty: Black Ops

Exclusive dedicated servers…Exclusive being the key word here, hosted through a company called Gamestop who do not have any New Zealand servers forcing us kiwi's to play on aussie servers.

As of right now the game is suffering from severe memory leaks and graphic issues causing it to constantly freeze especially when you have an enemy in your cross hairs.

Despite all of the above the actual game play is similar to CoD4 or MW2 except with new gadgets/maps/we­apons…nothing too exciting and quickly becomes stale after a few hours.

(PC platform) For many people including myself, the game is un-playable on single play and multiplayer. There are already pages on the internet from people having problems (including people with high end spec pc's). Very disappointing after the disappointing on day one and especially after the issues with MW2. There are already rumours of a patch. Not good considering they had a year to get it right. Are they trying to get everyone to play consoles?

This games pc release was such an epic fail it should be posted on failblog.
Firstly and most obviously no matter which mode you play (multiplayer and single player) and what pc components you have it has massive frame jumping. Everyone I have played with online experiences this and it is tremendously annoying.
Secondly if you are hoping for the spectacular graphics that should be expected of such a high budget and publicised game then prepare to be disappointed, nothing, at all has change from treyarchs call of duty waw and cod 4.
Other than those two things this game is sweet.

With all the hype around the game I expected something more. Don't get me wrong this is a very good game and is fun to play I just believe they over sold it.

Having played for about 3 hours I have to say so far I prefer MW2 over this game for single player game play. The story is very confusing at the start and most the stages feels very scripted. There are a few very open stages but even here they manage to get you to run along a singular path so don't expect to go exploring.

Half the time you feel like Terminator killing bad guys while epic music is playing in the background.

I have one or two niggles with the controls but overall you can get use to them fairly quickly. One thing that you may or may not like is that you character feels like he has weight, meaning that the character reacts more like a real person would.

The game graphics is probably on par with MW2 but does feels duller, but this may be due to the fact that the game plays out in the 60's.

As for the multiplayer I must say dedicated servers rule.
Zombie mode is heaps of fun for up too 4 players and kind of ironic that you can play a dead President. Overall multiplayer is a lot of fun and there is very little to fault at this point. I'm sure a lot of people will find 101 niggle's with it over time but for now I'm enjoying it immensely.

I'll give it 4 out of 5 but only because the single player is not as good as I had hoped.

This is a great game. Its very easy to waste several hours in the intense multiplayer action. And when your sick of that there's a awesome one player campaign to play through.